Did Apple just greenlight online gambling on the App Store?
You can’t have boobs, skin, and sex on the App Store, but you’re sure free to bet your money and possibly gamble away your future, so to speak, using your iPhone. Either this particular submission managed to slip under the Apple censors’ radar or the company relaxed its policies in order to allow new software types into its mobile bazaar. Either way, Betfair has officially become the first betting firm to have its gambling app called Betfair Client on the store. According to EGR Mag, this development ushers in a new era for iPhone users: The downloadable app featuring Betfair’s exchange product marks a change in policy for Apple, which has not offered gambling applications for download from its App Store hitherto, ostensibly due to the US egaming ban. The publication cited Betfair’s mobile chief who claims Apple imposed “no terms and conditions” to regulate gambling. That being said, the app only works in UK and Ireland due to that pesky US e-gaming ban. Apple has repeatedly demanded t
